What is XEmacs?

XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and
application development system. It is protected under the GNU
Public License and related to other versions of Emacs, in
particular
GNU Emacs.
Its emphasis is on modern graphical user
interface support and an open software development model, similar
to Linux. XEmacs has an active development community numbering in
the hundreds, and runs on Windows 95 and NT, Linux and nearly
every other version of Unix in existence. Support for XEmacs has
been supplied by
Sun Microsystems,
University of Illinois,
Lucid, ETL/Electrotechnical Laboratory,
Amdahl Corporation,
BeOpen, and others, as well as the unpaid
time of a great number of individual developers.

As a common saying goes: Objects in mirror are closer than
they appear.

XEmacs Website Mirrors exist on following continents. Pick the
continent where your internet service provider resides, which is
not always the continent you may sit on. This is most likely to
matter when you work for an international company with no local
internet connection.

Current XEmacs Core Releases

XEmacs 21.4 has been promoted to stable, and the XEmacs
21.1 series has been retired. For those with classic taste, these
historical releases
are still available. We will continue to support, at a lower
level, 21.1 users. See the
announcement of 21.4.12 for
details.

Current XEmacs Package Releases

See the Quickstart
Package Guide for information about the XEmacs package system.
It is a feature differentiating XEmacs from GNU Emacs by allowing
us to deploy bug fixes and enhancements of our lisp packages on a
separate, usually faster, schedule than core XEmacs releases.

Users in Greece will be glad to hear the University of Crete is now
providing an XEmacs website mirror and ftp site mirror. The
next beta release of XEmacs with also know how to download
packages from this mirror site. Thank you, University of
Crete, for joining our growing list of XEmacs mirror sites!

A new XEmacs website and ftp mirror is provided by HKMirror
(http://www.hkmirror.org/),
strengthening our accessibility in Asia. The XEmacs project
thanks HKMirror.org for their support!

2005-02-09

We have a new Carbon (ie, native GUI) port of XEmacs to Mac OS
X! Thanks and kudos to Andrew Choi, whose work on the Mac OS
X port of GNU Emacs is well-known and highly praised. The
port is still experimental and available only as a 3rd-party
patch as of today, but a binary package is planned, and
discussion is underway as to how to best support Andrew's work
and prepare it for merge to mainline.

The patch and installation instructions are available at Andrew's XEmacs
page. Bug reports for Andrew should go to the newsgroup
comp.emacs.xemacs for now, but discussion of the port is also
occurring on the xemacs-beta mailing list.

Thanks, Myrkraverk, for providing the official XEmacs mirror
in Iceland, both for the http://ftp.is.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/
(FTP area) and http://www.is.xemacs.org/ (website) services!

2004-05-10

Unnoticed by global media, IRC channel #xemacs, hosted by freenode.net, has been
officially registered on 28 April, 2004. Please use it to
discuss development issues requiring developer
interaction. One of the most popular IRC clients in the Emacs
community is ERC
(already an XEmacs package).

The XEmacs Project notes with sadness the untimely
passing of J. Pitts Jarvis, III, of Palo Alto, CA.
Jarvis was responsible for the ports of XEmacs 19.14 to
MacOS 8, and of XEmacs 21.5.9 to Mac OS X (the "Carbon"
branch). We will miss his presence as we integrate his
work.

KREONET (Korea
Research Environment Open NETwork) has been the Korean XEmacs
FTP mirror for some time and has now established a Korean
XEmacs website mirror,
http://www.kr.xemacs.org/.
Thanks for mirroring us, KREONET!

Peter Brown, our new website sidekick, sets up a
Namazu search engine for the
XEmacs website. Indexes get updated on each and every commit
to the website. Mailing lists remain
searchable separately via their own interface.

The XEmacs CVS repository at SunSITE.dk is browsable via newly
installed ViewCVS 0.9.2 in its own domain at
http://cvs.xemacs.org/

2001-11-29

Although GTK is still classed as experimental because the core
team has insufficient time to devote to it, Les Schaffer is
coordinating efforts to improve the support. Visit his GTK
XEmacs bugs page (it disappeared between June and October
2004) for more information. Thanks, Les!

2001-11-03

All XEmacs CVS modules, among other projects, can now be
browsed via cvsweb (upgraded to ViewCVS access on 2002-01-16)
at the Anonymous CVS Repository at SunSITE.dk. See also
Service Issue 8. Details about CVS repository access
are still in flux, but documentation in ./Develop/cvsaccess.html and
./Develop/packages.html will be kept in sync with reality.

2001-08-15

The xemacsweb CVS repository is moved from
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xemacs/xemacsweb/
at SourceForge (which is no longer updated) to repository
at SunSITE.dk to make automatic website updates work
again. See also Service
Issue 6.

XEmacs 21.4.0 "Solid Vapor" is released. See the
Announcement
for details.

2001-03-29

Infodock, the industrial-strength IDE built on
XEmacs, has now opened a
SourceForge project. The current release
of Infodock, 4.00.08, is based on XEmacs 21.1.

2001-03-28

The final release date for XEmacs 21.4 has been fixed for
April 15th; see the
Release page
for details.

2001-01-09

The code base currently called ``XEmacs 21.2'' is now
scheduled for release
on March 1, 2001. Prelease testing and development discussion
are taking place on
xemacs-beta,
the open list for developers and beta testers. Come join the
fun!

It's about time for a dashing piece of news: William
M. Perry's work (funded by BeOpen.com through sourceXchange),
Gtk-XEmacs is available via tarballs or
directly from the XEmacs repository. (N.B. This feature has
been incorporated in the XEmacs mainline since the 21.4.0
release.)

Congratulations to XEmacs hacker Andy Piper and his
family on the birth of William Piper on 5 May 2000!

2000-01-18

Users of the MacOS are reported to be rejoicing wildly now
that a port of XEmacs 19.14 is available for their
platform of choice.

XEmacs has been nominated in the
Slashdot 2000 Beanie Awards, in the Best
Open Source Editor Category. We urge all XEmacs users to vote
(http://slashdot.org/vote.pl) for their
favorite editor.

1999-09-29

The first public release of
coffee.el
allows RFC2324-compliant coffee
devices (Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, or HTCPCP) to
be controlled from within XEmacs. Coffee-drinking XEmacs users
everywhere rejoice as their favorite beverage is unified with
their favorite editor.